The Last Days of Socrates

Author: Plato
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965886
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo 'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death' The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy of a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges against him. In the Crito, awaiting execution in prison, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. Finally, in the Phaedo, he is shown calmly confident in the face of death. Translated by HUGH TREDENNICK and HAROLD TARRANT with an Introduction and notes by HAROLD TARRANT

The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo

Author: Plato
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387197193
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 117

Book Description
This new digital edition of The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo presents Benjamin Jowett's classic translations, as revised by Enhanced Media Publishing. A number of new or expanded annotations are also included.

The Last Days of Socrates

Author: Plato
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789357001168
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A new version of Plato's four-part discourse extolling Socrates' brilliance. Plato's account of Socrates' trial and execution in 399 BC marks a turning point in Western literature as well as in ancient Athens' way of life. In these four dialogues, Plato elaborates on the Socratic notion of personal accountability and illustrates how Socrates, who was ordered by his fellow Athenians to commit suicide, lived and died in accordance with his own philosophy. In Euthyphro, Socrates engages in a discussion about goodness outside the courtroom; in Apology, he defends himself against all accusations of impiety; in Crito, he rejects a plea to be let out of prison; and in Phaedo, he approaches death with composure and an insightful discussion of eternity.

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Author: Plato
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111342
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo. Translations by distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

The Death of Socrates

Author: Emily R. Wilson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026834
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Socrates's death in 399 BCE has figured largely in our world, shaping how we think about heroism and celebrity, religion and family life, state control and individual freedom--many of the key coordinates of Western culture. Wilson analyzes the enormous and enduring power the trial and death of Socrates has exerted over the Western imagination.

Four Dialogues

Author: Plato
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434458164
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 90

Book Description
Included in this volume are "Euthyphro," "Apology," "Crito," and the Death Scene from "Phaedo." Translated by F.J. Church. Revisions and Introduction by Robert D. Cumming.

Symposium and the Death of Socrates

Author: Plato
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264795
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
"Symposium" gives an account of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. The other dialogues collected here under the title "The Death of Socrates" tell the tale of how Socrates was put on trial for impiety, found guilty and sentenced to death.

Vital Remnants

Author: Gary L. Gregg
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
"America's founding generation was learned in the history and literature of the West and steeped in the English tradition of liberty. Vital Remnants revisits for a new generation the sources of America's greatness and suggests means to restore our weakened foundations."--BOOK JACKET.

Why Socrates Died

Author: Robin Waterfield
Publisher: Emblem Editions
ISBN: 0771088639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
A revisionist account of the most famous trial and execution in Western civilization — one with great resonance for modern society In the spring of 399 BCE, the elderly philosopher Socrates stood trial in his native Athens. The court was packed, and after being found guilty by his peers, Socrates died by drinking a cup of poison hemlock, his execution a defining moment in ancient civilization. Yet time has transmuted the facts into a fable. Aware of these myths, Robin Waterfield has examined the actual Greek sources, presenting a new Socrates, not an atheist or guru of a weird sect, but a deeply moral thinker, whose convictions stood in stark relief to those of his former disciple, Alcibiades, the hawkish and self-serving military leader. Refusing to surrender his beliefs even in the face of death, Socrates, as Waterfield reveals, was determined to save a morally decayed country that was tearing itself apart. Why Socrates Died is then not only a powerful revisionist book, but a work whose insights translate clearly from ancient Athens to the present day.

The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy

Author: Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791426333
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Shows that the dialogue in Plato's Phaedo is primarily devoted to presenting Socrates' final defense of the philosophical life against the theoretical and political challenge of religion.